Technical Lead / Architect
Location: GB, LND, London
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Philanthropy
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
nakedhearts is an ambitious and well-funded start up. We are building a global online social network to connect users with the causes they care about, and integrate social good into our daily lives. Because when we get together and make it easy to give (time and money), we will leave the world better than we find it.We are launching in the UK and US in a few months, and we are looking to bring our creative, design and UX team in-house, so now is an exciting time to join our rapidly growing team.Our first product is a mobile app for users to donate time and attention to charities while on-the-go and connect with the beneficiary world. Only 2 minutes to spare? No problem. Have a browse on your smartphone - you can help a blind person cross the street on the other side of the world. If you have ten minutes, you can make an enormous difference - did you know that you can help beat cancer by playing a game?We are excited by the support we have received so far. We are working with brands and media partners ahead of our launch in a few months. We are creating a talented, experienced, capable engineering team from scratch to build a world-class platform for interacting with charities and social causes. We believe in best-of-breed technology and have high standards for delivery. We are looking for people who, along with the aforementioned experience and talent, are passionate about what we are trying to achieve, and keen to innovate (while having fun!).Please take a look at our open roles below to find out more. If you would like more information about nakedhearts (especially from a developer perspective), check out our Stack Careers site for the geeky stuff.To speak to a real person, call +44 7719 080631 or e-mail #EMAIL_b7983b85872294ba2e4a77ba948c5ea02d2b59e521bd926f155209494d9bc591#. Thanks!

Job description:
nakedhearts is looking for an experienced, talented technical lead / architect to lead a small team of highly skilled engineers in building out, from scratch, a new global platform for people and brands to interact with charities and their campaigns in new and interesting ways.The Tech Lead will:support the CTO building out the development team,be motivated to continue in development whilst leading and inspiring others,responsible for architecture, technical design, code quality, development efficiency, maintenance and quality of the applications built,nurture a "small team" mentality, where every developer has an end-to-end understanding of product development; he/she will drive the team to innovate,believe in what we do, excel in what you do and above all you will be a passionate engineer.If you’re the one we’re looking for, you will probably have a couple of hobby projects that you want to show us anyway. We strongly believe in CI, CD, automated testing and an agile environment, we hope that you do too.This is a challenging but rewarding role designing, building and maintaining a platform that will scale to millions of users - you must be excellent under pressure.

Requirements:
2:1 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similarAt least 2+ years in team lead capacityAt least 5 years commercial experience of complex backend developmentMust be an expert in JavaExperience with frameworks e.g. SpringExpertise with the Python programming languageMust be language-agnostic and use the best tool for the jobYou must understand API-driven design and developmentYou have a great understanding of performance and tuningIn depth experience with relational database enginesexpert unix/linux skills from a system administration perspective, including shell scriptsexperience of "Big Data" technologies and best practicesfamiliarity with NoSQL-based platforms such as Redis, MongoDB, elasticsearchExperienced with agile development best practicesSolid experience of object-oriented design and modern programming techniquesFamiliarity with Continuous Integration (e.g. Jenkins) and automated testingIn-depth knowledge of web security issuesData structures and algorithms - knowledge and ability to applyAn understanding of the open source ethos and practicesExperience with cloud infrastructure (Amazon Web Services most desirable)Experience with setting up and maintaining development environmentsa desire to mentor less experienced engineers and drive forward initiatives such as code reviewsFluent English (written and spoken) is a mustDesirable:experience with data analytics and machine learning technologies and techniques

Benefits:
A chance to be a key part of a challenging, global, green-fields project using latest, best-of-breed technologiesA challenging and fun work environmentA small but talented teamA great office location in Covent Garden, in the heart of London's West EndPlease apply through workable or send us an email on #EMAIL_b7983b85872294ba2e4a77ba948c5ea02d2b59e521bd926f155209494d9bc591# You can speak to us in person on +44 7719 080631